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...promise that was Duarte flickered most brightly in 1984, the year he rode to the presidency on a wave of popular enthusiasm. Pledging an end to the civil war and the beginning of an era of stability, Duarte became El Salvador's first freely elected civilian President in half a century. It was a particularly satisfying victory, since Duarte had been robbed of the presidency in 1972, when Salvadoran soldiers halted the vote count and beat the candidate severely. Duarte fled into exile in Venezuela, not venturing home until seven years later, when a coup paved...
...tragic example of the fiscal myopia of the Reagan era is the paucity of investment in America's future economic health, by way of improvements in human resources and physical infrastructure. Between 1984 and 1986, while military spending grew 13 percent, government spending for economic programs (including transportation and civilian research and development) declined by 0.6 percent, and federal funding for education declined by 1.8 percent...
...stepping up protests against the 250,000-strong uniformed U.S. presence in a country about the size of Oregon with the population density of Connecticut. "We're holding something like 1,100 exercises a year, and these people simply won't put up with it anymore," says a civilian adviser to the U.S. Army command. "I can't say that I blame them. If we had a military presence like this in New Jersey, we wouldn't stand for it either...
...forces in Germany have never before encountered that kind of pressure, which is reaching down to the field-operations level. West German authorities are asking for the right to inspect military vehicles for compliance with civilian safety and pollution rules, and some labor leaders are suggesting that civilian employees of the U.S. forces be given the management- participation rights that workers have in West German industry. U.S. officials, mindful of the delicacy of relations, are cautious about asserting their rights and fearful of another Ramstein-like disaster, especially with elections coming up in December. "We're in a situation here...
...chagrin of many East Germans, it turns out that no more than 1,000 of the dogs are really trained to attack, and the East Germans are keeping those; the rest are pussycats, decoys whose ominous presence once created fear among the civilian populace...